News

Today we give a presentation about the BRAMS project at the Meteorendag in public observatory Halley in The Netherlands. During
the presentation we will give a general overview of the project.

[08/10/2009]FTP Server

Today we have set-up a FTP server
for people that have joined our project. Initially, you can use this server to upload your WAV files when there
is an interesting event (such as a nice head echo). It will then be easy for anyone who wants to do some analysis
with these data to download them. Later we'll find some other applications for this FTP server.

[05/10/2009]Future Beacon

We have ordered an OX32 crystal at HM International according to suggestions from Gaspard
Dewilde and Michel Anciaux (one of our new collaborator at
BISA). We will very soon order a power amplifier and additional components needed to have a beacon emitting a
power of 150W at a frequency of 49.970 MHz. Once we have all the details concerning the commercial instruments
we will use, we will send them to the IBPT and we will offically buy the frequency slots. We still have to
carefully think where to locate this beacon. Discussions will be started soon with René Warnant who is
responsible of the Dourbes site.

[01/10/2009]Demo during the Open Doors

During this week-end (October 3 and 4), the Open Doors of the Institute are organized (together also with the
Royal Observatory and the Institute of Meteorology). As an activity, we will show our new receiving station.
Since we have some problems to listen to the frequency of the Yper beacon, we will listen to some Eastern
European TV emitters at 49.7385 MHz where we see a lot of meteors. We will also make some advertisement of our
common project.

[25/09/2009]First Tests

The first tests to listen to the beacon frequency in Yper haven't been successful because of the presence
of a local annoying repetitive and strong signal that prevented us to see any meteor reflexion. We will first
check if this signal is very local or not. If it is not coming from the Uccle Plateau, then we will ask the
IBPT to find out who is emitting at this frequency.

[24/09/2009]Arrival of the Material

This morning, we have received two boxes with our radio receiver and antenna. This very special moment marks the
beginning of our radio meteor observation network. The receiving station is composed by a 3-element Yagi antenna
connected to an AR5000 commercial receiver.